A Temporary Preface to the Six-text Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Part I, Attempting to Show the True Order of the Tales, and the Days and Stages of the Pilgrimage, Etc., EtcChaucer Society, 1868 - 145 pages |
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Page 112 - Would that I Had but some portion of that mastery That from the rose-hung lanes of woody Kent Through these five hundred years such songs have sent To us, who, meshed within this smoky net Of unrejoicing labour, love them yet. And thou, O Master! — Yea, my Master still, Whatever feet have scaled Parnassus' hill, Since like thy measures, clear and sweet and strong, Thames...
Page 133 - Ladies the meaning hereof, which is this : They which honour the Flower, a thing fading with every blast, are such as look after beauty and worldly pleasure ; but they that honour the Leaf, which abideth with the root notwithstanding the frosts and winter storms, are they which follow virtue and during qualities without regard of worldly respects.
Page 113 - ... stream scarce fettered bore the bream along Unto the bastioned bridge, his only chain. O Master, pardon me, if yet in vain Thou art my Master, and I fail to bring Before men's eyes the image of the thing My heart is filled with : thou whose dreamy eyes Beheld the flush to Cressid's cheeks arise, 20 When Troilus rode up the praising street, As clearly as they saw thy townsmen meet Those who in vineyards of Poictou withstood The glittering horror of the steel-topped wood.
Page 136 - And at the last there began anone A lady for to sing right womanly A bargaret in praising the daisie ; For as me thought among her notes swete, She said
Page ii - ... revert unto us and our successors. In witness whereof, as well the Common Seal of the City aforesaid as the seal of the said Geoffrey, have been to these present indentures interchangeably appended. Given in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the city aforesaid, the loth day of May, in the 48th year of the reign of King Edward, after the Conquest the Third.
Page 108 - ... l'entraînèrent loin des siens, tandis que Bernabos appeloit vainement son neveu à son aide, et le supplioit de n'être pas traître à son propre sang. La ville de Milan ouvrit aussitôt ses portes à Jean Galéaz ; et ce fut dans un de ses châteaux que son seigneur déposé fut retenu prissonicr avec ses deux fils. A trois reprises il fut empoisonné pendant les sept mois que dura sa détention.
Page i - ... and sufficiently, at the expense of the same Geoffrey, throughout the whole life of him the same Geoffrey. And it shall be lawful for the Chamberlain of the Guildhall of London, for the time being, so often as he shall see fit, to enter the house and rooms aforesaid, with their appurtenances, to see that the same are well, and competently, and sufficiently, maintained and repaired, as aforesaid. And if the said Geoffrey shall not have maintained or repaired the aforesaid house and rooms competently...
Page iii - ... Robert Grygge, sadler, such persons to have them here on the Sunday at their peril. Thus the said Alan at the day appointed was acquitted ; but the other, Nicholas Moliere "for the lie of which he was so convicted...
Page 91 - ... in it on a further look, and with deepset, farlooking, grey eyes. Not the face of a very old man, a totterer, but of one with work in him yet, looking kindly, though seriously, out on the world before him. Unluckily, the parted grey...